The Epistle to the Hebrews

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Now even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and
its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world.

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For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein were the
candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy
place.

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And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
holies;

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having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid
round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

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and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which
things we cannot now speak severally.

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Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in
continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

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but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not
without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the
people:

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the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath
not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

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which is a figure for the time present; according to which are
offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience,
make the worshipper perfect,

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being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal
ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

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But Messiah having come a high priest of the good things to come,
through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this creation,

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nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own
blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption.

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For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the
flesh:

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how much more shall the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without blemish unto YAHUVEH, cleanse your conscience
from dead works to serve the living YAHUVEH?

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And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death
having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the
promise of the eternal inheritance.

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For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him
that made it.

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For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth
never avail while he that made it liveth.

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Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated
without blood.

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For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with
water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and
all the people,

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saying, This is the blood of the covenant which YAHUVEH commanded to
you-ward.

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Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he
sprinkled in like manner with the blood.

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And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed
with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

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It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens
should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these.

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For Messiah entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in
pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face
of YAHUVEH for us:

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nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth
into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

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else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but
now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself.

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And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh
judgment;

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so Messiah also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many,
shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him,
unto salvation.